Two more victims, 911 call recordings released after plane crash

Monday

Jun 2, 2014 at 3:25 PMJun 2, 2014 at 3:52 PM

Pilot James McDowell and Teresa Ann Benhoff were identified as two of the three crew members aboard the plane that crashed at Hanscom Field on Saturday in statement release Monday afternoon by the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office.

The name of the co-pilot still has not been released by the DA’s Office.

McDowell, 51, was a resident of Georgetown, Delaware.

Benhoff, 48, was a resident of Easton, Maryland.

The release of the names comes hours after Bedford Police released the 911 calls that came into the town’s police department.

Callers described the loud explosion and the fire that destroyed the plane except for the cockpit.

The NTSB says the tire marks on runway extend 2,000 feet from paved surface of runway and that the plane struck a localizer antenna, a fence and beyond that came to a rest in the gully.

The tank wasn't full of fuel, according the NTSB’s statement.

The DA’s office also official confirmed the four passengers aboard the plane including 72-year-old Lewis Katz; Susan Asbell, 67, of Cherry Hill, New Jersey; Marcella Dalsey, 59, of Williamstown, New Jersey; and Anne Leeds of Longport, New Jersey.

Family and friends released the names of the passengers on Sunday.

Dalsey, the executive director of The Drew A. Katz Foundation and president of The KATZ Academy Charter School in Camden, New Jersey.

Leeds, was the wife of James P. Leeds Sr., who serves on the board of commissioners in Longport, a resort town in southern New Jersey, according to the AP.

Katz had attended an education-related event Saturday afternoon at the Concord home of Doris Kearns Goodwin, the Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian, and her husband Richard Goodwin, former advisor to Democratic presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson.

The event, which included more than 200 people, was in support of their son Michael Goodwin’s Concord River Institute, an interdisciplinary "school for schools" he created while working as a teacher at Concord-Carlisle High School.

"Lew Katz was my cherished friend of nearly 20 years," Doris Kearns Goodwin said in a statement. "He was a force of nature. So deep was his commitment to education reform that he flew to Concord to support my son Michael's Concord River institute. Afterward we all went to dinner, where we talked at length about our shared passions for sports and journalism, politics and history. But the last thing he said to me upon leaving for the plane was that most of all what we shared was our love and pride for our children. I have lost a great friend, his family has lost a great father and grandfather, and the country has lost a great man."

Katz was the co-owner of The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Daily News and Philly.com.

Katz and H.F. "Gerry" Lenfest, a former cable magnate-turned-philanthropist, bought out their partners with an $88 million bid for the company on Tuesday, according to the AP.

Katz, 72, made his fortune investing in the Kinney Parking empire and the Yankees Entertainment and Sports Network in New York. He once owned the NBA's New Jersey Nets and the NHL's New Jersey Devils and is a major donor to Temple University, his alma mater, according to the AP.